People like Alex Johnson, a security system manager at Minneapolis-based Ascent Solutions, earn theirs by acting as the first line of defense between those online criminals and Minnesota organizations ...

Spear phishing, the act of sending targeted emails to get you to share financial information or passwords, can be ...

The CPUs of those home computers barely used ten watts between them, yet that was enough to get the crew in a lot of hot ...

How do hackers get access to your computer? Hackers have many tricks up their sleeves. Viruses and malicious software, aka malware, make the most of security gaps, but something called social ...

A good degree in computer science, plus specialist certifications, should put you in the right position to become an ethical hacker. Unlike the popular image of hackers, ethical hackers don’t tend to ...

LLMs can help improve the efficiency of cybersecurity workers, increasing the number of vulnerabilities they find in less ...

The last year has seen some of the costliest cyber attacks on UK businesses to date. Attacks on Marks & Spencer cost the supermarket chain hundreds of millions in lost profits and led to empty shelves ...

Two alleged computer hackers were indicted in the District of Massachusetts on charges of damaging multiple websites across the United States as retaliation for United States military action in ...

Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company's Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers. "There has been no breach ...

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we take a closer look at the knotty tale of MI5’s numerous attempts to identify a BBC journalist’s sources by obtaining phone data, and whether this led to ...